Cloverleaf "Project Red Clay"

On October 13 the county commission voted 3–2 to approve the hyperscale campus and a 20-year tax abatement reported at more than $1 billion, in a motion residents say skipped the special meeting the agenda called for. Two residents then sued under Alabama's Open Meetings Act. The site lies in a majority-Black county with a long-running sewage crisis, under a mile from a campsite on the historic Selma-to-Montgomery march route; Rep. Terri Sewell has raised objections, while the developer's end user remains undisclosed.